How to Use anathema in a Sentence

anathema

noun

• Shapiro supports school vouchers — public money to help students attend private schools — which is anathema to teachers unions.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• Publicity and self-promotion were anathema to this most private of authors, who died in 1989.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• And that is anathema to those that live and sell the outdoor life.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 13 May 2022
• At the same time, the Arnolds have funded causes that are anathema to some on the left.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 26 Mar. 2018
• The idea of Auto-Tune and singing to a pre-recorded track are anathema to Strings.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
• Screens are an anathema to the group, which sees them as a drain on mental health.
  — Andrew Maynard, Fortune, 12 May 2023
• The notion of eating the same cuisine two days in a row is anathema to most of us.
  — Adam Rapoport, Bon Appetit, 23 Feb. 2017
• The thought of returning to a hard-right regime again is anathema to many.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 6 Apr. 2022
• The notion of eating the same cuisine two days in a row is anathema to most of us.
  — Adam Rapoport, Bon Appetit, 23 Feb. 2017
• And to be so aggressive with clients is anathema, even for partners in the firms.
  — Karthik Ramanna, Fortune, 11 July 2020
• This may be anathema to many, but there is good news, and plenty of hope for a brighter future.
  — Paul Roehrig, Quartz, 3 June 2019
• But the idea that anyone could only eat six fries is still anathema to me.
  — Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 14 July 2021
• And if that seems anathema to the M division ethos, so are throw pillows and a 6054-pound curb weight.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 June 2023
• That the country might be governed by Bengalis was, of course, anathema to Bhutto and the army.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Do the powers that be in the World Cup know that flopping and faking injuries is anathema to success in sports in the U.S.?
  — latimes.com, 22 June 2018
• Of course, that kind of commitment might be anathema for some folks.
  — Lisa Butterworth, SELF, 14 Feb. 2023
• The Dogman sat with his mouth ajar, as though the idea of refusing a call was anathema to his truest being.
  — Michael Deagler, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• At the time, all of this was anathema in corporate South Korea.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2020
• That’s not to say that Hawley’s version of conservatism is anathema to the right.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 July 2022
• This progress in science was not anathema to most religions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• To me, this inclusion is an anathema to a union contract at all.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
• So much of the new sobriety flex is anathema to the captious alcoholics of 12-step groups.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022
• Drinking a full sugar soda is anathema for this group, who are finicky and smug.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2020
• All of these moves would have been anathema to the drafters of India’s constitution.
  — Jonah Blank, The Atlantic, 10 June 2021
• All-Star still yet to enter the prime of his flourishing career seems, on the surface at least, to be anathema to what the lottery is for.
  — Mark Deeks, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• His desire to push the bill farther to the right and scrap some of Obamacare’s most popular features is anathema to Democrats.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2017
• To me, bringing a gun into a classroom is anathema to the very notion of what being a teacher is.
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 23 Feb. 2018
• Sadly, this kind of reform still seems to be anathema to Mr Modi.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• In 2016, Trump was anathema to the GOP’s traditional wealthy donors.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2019
• But this time, the guard rails were anathema to some members of a community that has often been failed by health care providers.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024